Mrs. Kelly’s Monster: Response

After reading Mrs. Kelly’s Monster by Jon Franklin, my view of feature writing has changed. I didn’t realize how much vivid detail could go into a journalistic type story. I was in awe at Franklin’s attention to detail; such as the exact time something happened, or how he demonstrated Mrs. Kelly’s heart beat with “pops”. Not only that, I was very intrigued when you couldn’t tell what the story was going to be about right away — how he built the suspense. As opposed to a news style article where you know exactly what the article is going to be about in the first sentence.